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Toughie No. 30 — cryptic crossword

A toughie puzzle: 42 clues on a 15×15 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

  1. A firm name cooked up for the big computer (9)
  2. Clean with what's left of the fire (4)
  3. Legendary bird turning up? Blimey! (3)
  4. Strongbox short of a hundred makes a bid (5)
  5. Leader tailored, I fancy (9)
  6. Student of the Tibetan monk, a beast of burden (5)
  7. Acting to catch the ball on the sports ground (7,5)
  8. Lies spread about the island (4)
  9. Cowed, having hinted about identity (11)
  10. Curve seen in star-crossed lovers (3)
  11. Tea brewed, to Burns (3)
  12. Swoop on workers for the issue (11)
  13. Pets running wild in a clan (4)
  14. Support the natural world, an instinct (6,6)
  15. Prophet sheltering daughter for the Passover meal (5)
  16. Breaking out upon Maine, a serious lung infection (9)
  17. Upset, split badly (5)
  18. Openers for a dull soap! (3)
  19. Fortune-teller's cards cut short for a root vegetable (4)
  20. Things that go on after a cut, in the kitchen or the clinic (9)

Down

  1. Academic purpose is a matter open to question (4,5)
  2. Below, as found in fragmentary text (5)
  3. Force in mire, floundering — a physicist, perhaps (5)
  4. Took revenge on Geneva, in turmoil, one day (7)
  5. Title is squandered by a snob (7)
  6. Realms where a river runs through open country (6)
  7. Song of a drowned valley (4)
  8. Dance among some Oahu ladies (4)
  9. Officer with cover for journalist crashed (8)
  10. Bream swimming in the fossil resin (5)
  11. Fine cotton grass (4)
  12. Plane, perhaps, lurking in great reeds (4)
  13. Central conditions for the US elections (8)
  14. Badger's home built in cases for old tapes (9)
  15. Panes shattered by a tree (5)
  16. Notched up with a knight going in, but looked down on (7)
  17. Game end played out! (7)
  18. Bogus dupes, sadly, get nothing (6)
  19. Fools taking part in guitar sessions (5)
  20. College working for a merger (5)
  21. Notice a blemish (4)
  22. Expensive game, by the sound of it (4)

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